Great news for all web application developers: David Heinemeier Hansson, the rails-core-team and many others from the rails community put an early present under the xmas tree: Ruby on Rails 2.0.1. Thank you!

The Deutsche Telekom – and its subsidiary T-Mobile – antagonize designers and creatives by claiming a trademark for the color magenta at the European brandoffice. No other company should be allowed to use this color for their stationary advertising campaigns. Strictly speaking, this would lead to the fact that only the Deutsche Telekom would be allowed to print in full color: Finally nearly all full color prints are realized with the four colors C – cyan, M – magenta, Y – yellow and K – black.
Graphic designers in the Netherlands started a "consumer created content campaign" against the prohibition to use magenta in advertisement.

As a result, the claiming of the color magenta as a trademark may damage the value of the Deutsche Telekom image substantially.

Source & picture: freemagenta.nl, source: connectedmarketing.de

According to techcrunch, Chine declared war on western search engines, like Google and Yahoo. All requests to those search engine sites from within China are redirected to Baidu. This takes cyberwar to a next level. Or should we say DNS-cyberwar? A cyberwar against companies like Google and Yahoo, but also a fight against the freedom of speech and the freedom of information. But to be honest … this cyberwar against honest citizens who want user their right for freedom of speech or freedom of information … is not only situated in China. Also in western democracies like, the US or within the EU these fundamental citizen rights are called into question also. So, let’s hope that freedom and democracy are on the winning side at the end.

Source: techcrunch.com

Great news from David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), the whole Rails team and the Rails community: The brand new Rails 2.0 Preview Release can be downloaded NOW. Ruby on Rails uses the young and very smart programming language Ruby and offers a sophisticated framework for web application development. So if you are a web developer and do not know what I am talking about – it’s time to look at the open source framework Ruby on Rails
As David pointed out at his keynote at the RailsConf Europe two weeks ago, it is less of an revolution – but it is more of innovation in detail. So, go through the new features and improvements – it’s the next step to elegance and beauty in web programming.

Source: weblog.rubyonrails.org

Finally, rumors have come to an end: The Apple iPhone will be distributed in Germany by T-Mobile at a price of 399 EUR including a contract from November 9th 2007. The crucial question about the iPhone rates at T-Mobile is still left open.
Steve Jobs traveled to Berlin personally to present the new gadget with Deutsche Telekom CEO René Obermann.
From November 9th the iPhone will also be available in Great Britain and France. O2 (GB) will sell them for 269 GBP and Orange (FR) also for 399 EUR. In Great Britain the secret of the O2-iPhone rates was disclosed. O2 will charge a 35, 45 or 55 GBP per month rate for a data traffic flat rate an 200, 600 or 1,200 free minutes.
Accoding to FTD, the Deutsche Telekom is planning to sell one Million iPhones in the last quarter. That’s a quite remarkable number, especially because the missing UMTS support of the iPhone will probably may deter potential customers. Some probably will wait for the UMTS / 3G version of the iPhone which should be available next year. Also the market entry of the iPod-touch as a WiFi capable mobile Internet terminal at the end of this month will more likely lower the needs for iPhones than boost it.
For Apple as a company, for mobile application developers and for the endusers this isn’t bad news at all. Far from it: Because of the availability of a critical mass of standardized mobile web terminals (same screen-size, same usability, same web browser Safari 3) an innovative, viral and worldwide mobile business market may develop!
And this would also make the Deutsche Telekom happy, at the end

Sources: O2.co.uk, Ftd-reuters Video , Ftd.de, Apple.com